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Friday, June 3, 2016

It's looking like another smashing success for the NBA Finals this year, as Game 1 adjusted from a 6.0 preliminary up to a 7.3 final rating. This is the highest-rated Game 1 in my 15-year records and up by four tenths from last year's opener. Lead-in programming from Jimmy Kimmel (1.2) and NBA Countdown (2.1) were each up a notch from last year's openers.

CBS repeats (1.6/1.2/1.0/0.8/0.6) were the best of the rest, and most of them were actually even with or slightly above what CBS did against Game 1 of the Finals last year.

NBC finished the burn-off of Strong (0.6) and continued the burn-off with two more hours of Game of Silence (0.5).

And Beauty and the Beast returned to the CW for its final season with a 0.2, leading out of a 0.2 repeat of Legends of Tomorrow. The last season of BatB had four 0.3's (including one for the premiere) and nine 0.2's.

FULL TABLE:

Name

A18-49

Skew

Last

Lastn

LeLa

wy2y

TLa

Ty2y

True

Last

Jimmy Kimmel Live: Game Night

1.2

34%

+9%

+33%

+9%

1.62

NBA Countdown

2.1

42%

+5%

+133%

+5%

2.69

NBA Finals

7.3

48%

+6%

+698%

+6%

7.81

ABC:

+550%

+6%

The Big Bang Theory (R)

1.6

26%

+14%

+7%

1.92

Life in Pieces (R)

1.2

28%

+20%

0%

1.54

Mom (R)

1.0

24%

0%

0%

1.29

The Odd Couple (R)

0.8

24%

-11%

-27%

1.15

Code Black (R)

0.6

20%

-14%

0%

1.03

CBS:

+2%

-3%

Strong

0.6

29%

-14%

-0.1

-14%

-45%

1.06

+0.02

Game of Silence

0.5

28%

-17%

-0.1

-0.7

-17%

-29%

0.91

+0.22

NBC:

-16%

-36%

Bones

0.9

25%

0%

0.0

-25%

0%

-18%

1.33

+0.12

American Grit

0.6

39%

+20%

+0.1

0.0

+20%

-45%

1.06

+0.38

Fox:

+7%

-32%

Legends of Tomorrow (R)

0.2

34%

-33%

0%

0.34

Beauty and the Beast

0.2

31%

-33%

-33%

0%

0.36

CW:

-33%

0%

All:

+130%

-5%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.